Donald Miller Quotes
I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading.
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I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.
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I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing about it, where I felt there was a right side and a wrong side around a lot of these issues relating to education.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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Small moments can coexist with big moments and even back right up against each other.
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My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.
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I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me.
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Everybody always says that I'm the girl next door, which makes me think that y'all must have a lot of weird next-door neighbours.
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I believe God is real, but I believe God calls me beyond myself to take responsibility for my life and to try top work to allow other people to be themselves and to take responsibility for their lives.
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I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading.
